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• Designer Silversmith, Artist and Craftsman, Teacher and Lecturer, Organizer and Consultant

First and foremost I am an Artist, Craftsman and Designer Silversmith in the renowned Danish silver hollowware tradition. That's what I trained for and have honed, and it's what I love. I create unique sculptural objects and silver hollowware in the highest quality. The artistry and the craftsmanship must always be in top quality. This is essential to transfer the totality of my artistic vision and to promote the inherent qualities of artistic silver hollowware and objects. All my other activitys derive from this center of quality Silversmithing but are absolutely not limited to it. I was original trained as a Silversmith at the world famous Georg Jensen Silversmithy in Copenhagen, Denmark. I worked for the company for all in all 10 years. I was executing the designs of Henning Koppel, Sigvard Bernadotte and Georg Jensen himself. Through the years I was also the workshop manager assistant and responsible for training of the silversmith apprentices. In 1991 I established my own workshop where I was working in the evening and weekends creating and crafting my own designs for exhibitions and competitions. Recipient of the Hetsch Medal in Bronze 1993 - Set of bowls - Sterling silver and the Hetsch Medal in Silver 1997 - Tea infusers - sterling silver. Independence . When I in 1993 was awarded The Hetsch Medal for the first time I terminated my employment at The Georg Jensen Silversmithy and has since been running my own company Bæhring. I won my second Hetsch medal in 1997. Ever since I've been creating high quality Silver art for exhibitions and competitions and doing commission work, bespoke and maintenance of, among others, Royal and Historic collection Silver in Denmark and abroad.